History Thread

[Dallas]

an absolutely kino short documentary about 20th century russian visual art with supreme editing

 

[Ond]

The Dresden Bombing didn't happen. It was Axis Propaganda.

Speaking of bombing;

Based?

not only based, but also exceptionally redpilled

 

[Knight]

In 1985, the M-19 as a radical marxist group took over the Columbian palace of justice, nearly 25 supreme court justices were killed and the building was set on fire, resulting in important evidence against the group and many high profile criminals at the time being lost.

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[mårten]

In 1985, the M-19 as a radical marxist group took over the Columbian palace of justice, nearly 25 supreme court justices were killed and the building was set on fire, resulting in important evidence against the group and many high profile criminals at the time being lost.

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in the next episode of Narcos...

 

[mårten]

 

[Knight]

can’t believe no one has talked about the Colombian death squads funded by Coca Cola to take out trade union leaders...

 

[Deleted member 1381]

 

[Dallas]

“We will not attack unless we are attacked, if we are attacked, we will certainly counterattack!”

“All peoples of the world unite, to overthrow American imperialism! To overthrow Soviet revisionism! To overthrow the reactionaries of all nations!”

Sino-Soviet Border Conflict, 1969

"At present, the Soviet Union is reported to have the most powerful concentration of military force of the face of the earth deployed adjacent to China's northern borders ..." [Robinson "Soviet Policy in Eastern Asia" Problems in Communism November-December 1973] and Professor William Ebenstein has stated that "Today, the Sino-Soviet conflict is viewed everywhere as posing the most important potential threat of nuclear war between any two major powers in the world, possibly engulfing all continents." [Ebenstein 1973 p. 106]

Extract from Jess Thompson Goodman's The Chinese perception of the spectrum of the Sino-Soviet territorial conflict (1975)
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/36714010.pdf

 

[tera]

The Formation of Republic of Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew.
A Benevolent Dictatorship

Benevolent Dictatorship - A dictatorship in which an authoritarian leader had absolute power but is shown to exercise it in regard for benefit of his people, contrasting the stereotype of a malevolent dictator. Examples of these include Josip Broz Titos of Yugoslavia, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk of Turkey and Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore.

Lee Kuan Yew, known by his initials as LKY and known as 'Harry Lee' to his old comrades and English friends grew up in hardship in British-governed Singapore and resisted against Japanese occupation. Through times of hardship, he see it fit that Singapore should no longer be ruled by foreigners but by Singaporeans themselves.


My fellow countrymen.. MERDEKA (INDEPENDENCE)! Once more with pride! MERDEKA!​

He co-founded the People's Action Party (PAP) and became its first general secretary. In 1959, he became the first Prime Minister of Singapore after his political party won a landslide election and had made initiative to merge his nation with Malaya, North Borneo and Sarawak to form the Malaysian Federation. Unfortunately, this resulted in racial tensions and political conflict which led from the expulsion of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965. On that day, LKY was remembered for his quote regarding the independence of Republic of Singapore.


For me, it would be a moment of anguish. I mean for me, it is a moment of anguish because all my life….you see the whole of my adult life…. I have believed in Merger and the unity of the two territories. You know it's a people connected by geography, economics, and ties of kinship.



Thus, the Republic of Singapore was formed.

Singapore had many threats ever since its independence including being attacked by Indonesian military or being forcibly reabsorbed into Malaysia on disadvantageous terms. The need for international recognition was dire. LKY immediately sought to establish national security with the appointment of Goh Keng Swee as defense minister and quickly built up the Singaporean Armed Forces with help of Israel and Taiwan for military training and advice. in 1967, conscription was made compulsory for all Singaporean male citizens 18 and above. Some of these divisions went on to train in Taiwan. To this day, national service is still compulsory and has made a profound impact on the Singapore youth.

Economically, LKY's urgent task is to address the high unemployment rate of Singaporean citizens. Through trial and error, foreign investments of multinational corporations were necessary and LKY established First World infrastructures to woo American, European and Japanese entrepreneurs. Establishment of several production and service industries boomed over the nation of Singapore. Workers were retrained to familiarize themselves with the foreign work systems. LKY's meritocratic values were applied to Singaporean citizens, allowing them to become professionally-trained and hard workers allowing them to pursue sound macroeconomic policies and stabilization of the Singaporean Dollar.



Socially, he made meritocracy and multi-racialism as governing principles and made English as the national language to integrate immigrant workers and to initiate diplomacy with the Western world while mandated bilingualism schools to preserve the cultures on each races. He also did this because he did not want the world to know his nation as the 'Third China'. In fact, he did not establish official relations with China until early 1990s due to the fear of rising communism and domestic political considerations.

The criticism he received is that he suppressed political opponents and civil media but he had argued for such disciplinary measures to ensure political stability, together with rule of law in favour of economic progression. His autocratic rule can be summed up by his quote
Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society

His legacy of governing Singapore had caused the nation to rise from a third-world country to a first-world country in a single generation and one of the most developed nation in Asia. He stepped down in 1990 in favor of democratic elections as his succeeded by Goh Chok Tong to a more advisory role as a Senior Minister til 2004 and finally as a Minister Mentor til 2011

• Unemployment rate dropped from 13.5% in 1959 to 1.7% in 1990.​
• Literacy rate from 52% in 1959 to 90% in 1990​
• External trade from $7.3 billion in 1959 to $205 billion in 1990​
• Gross National Product from $1,240 in 1959 to %18,437 in 1990​

His leadership had even influenced the leadership in China, especially Deng Xiaoping who followed in his works of emulating policies of economic growth, entrepreneurship and subtle suppression of dissent. Over 22,000 Chinese officials were sent to Singapore to study its methods. Former British Prime Ministers such as Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair praised LKY's leadership

Sadly, his time finally came as he passed away on 23rd March 2015 at the age of 91. 1.7 million residents and guests paid tribute to him at the Parliament House and tribute sites around Singapore.


Personally, one of my favorite political figures. A very charismatic and meritocratic figure, raised in the difficult times of Singapore pre and post-independence. He has once stated that the only natural resource that Singapore has to offer is its hardworking society. While some do not agree with his autocratic rule, it was definitely in my opinion the right man for the right role of leadership in Singapore in its difficult and struggling times.
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@Raouldukejnr since you were talking about Singapore the other day.

 

[Ond]

John And Julian Lennon with John's 1964 Mulliner Park Ward Phantom V. Liverpool,1967.

Cigarette advertising in Copenhagen, c. 1920

Queen (then-Princess) Elizabeth with her grandfather King George V during his Silver Jubilee, 1935. To her right is Queen Mary of Teck.

Grand Canyon photographer suspended on a rope, 1908.

Spanish maquis guerrillas crossing the border between France and Spain through the Pyrenees during the failed invasion of the Aran Valley, an attempt to liberate a border region of Spain and start a popular uprising against the Francoist Regime, October 1944.

KLM flight attendant displays her AR-10 rifle and parka. Two parts of over 150 pieces of polar survival gear issued to commercial aircrews that flew over the north pole to reach Asia from America and Europe. The rifle was intended to defend against polar bear attacks. 1959​

 

[Sil]

John And Julian Lennon with John's 1964 Mulliner Park Ward Phantom V. Liverpool,1967.
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Hey I live there

 

[aperson]

Hey I live there

Sorry

 

[Sil]

Sorry

Thanks, I hate it too.

 

[Deleted member 332]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_IRA_attacks_in_the_Netherlands

Bit of history related to myself. My uncle (Ian Shinner, Senior Aircraftman, seen above) along with two other RAF members (John Miller Reid and John Baxter) were killed in 1988 by the IRA in a shooting/ bombing attack in the Netherlands. My uncle was shot in this car-

The two others killed were blown up by a bomb placed under their car a few miles away-

A picture of the funeral. the woman leaning her head against the guy with a moustache is my Great Auntie Maureen. My mum told me a while ago that my grandad (Maureen's brother) had said when I was little to never let me join the military when I grow up. Only recently realised that it was because of this attack. There's some history close to me anyhow lads.

Edit: Spelling correction from 'whole' to 'while' lol

 

[Ond]

 

[Black Rain (1989)]

 

[Ond]

Remove this post

 

[Deleted member 1381]

häallo

 

[Black Rain (1989)]

"I think I have found a comparison that captures the situation in which I and all the other soldiers who took part in this war so often found ourselves: you must imagine you are securely tied to a post, being menaced by a man swinging a heavy hammer. Now the hammer has been taken back over his head, ready to be swung, now it's cleaving the air towards you, on the point of touching your skull, then it's struck the post, and the splinters are flying - that's what it's like to experience heavy shelling in an exposed position."

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[Ond]

Soviet Composer, Dmitri Shostakovich, dressed in his Fire Warden uniform atop the Leningrad Conservatory. July 1941

Boy of Soviet destroyer-leader 'Tashkent' on guard during the Siege of Sevastopol

Confirmation ceremony, 1939, Sweden.

Pope John Paul II visiting the Ferrari's manufacture in Maranello, 4th June 1988

Last known photo of a Barbary lion in the wild. Atlas Mountains of North Africa, 1925

Portuguese troops during the Great War in Flanders with a Christ of the Trenches. Date unknown - sometime in 1918.

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